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The '''Demiurg''' are a race of short, semi-humanoid{{Fn|4}} traders and miners allied with the [[Tau Empire]].
==History==
During the [[Great Crusade]], they came under the notice of the [[Imperium of Man]] who learnt that they are a technologically advanced race that maintain cordial relations with several xeno cultures. They rarely enter the territory of mankind but by this era they maintained a clandestine mining installation at [[Tenebrae 9-50]] with its existence not being widely known by the Imperium.{{Fn|5}}
==Society==
It is currently unknown if the Demiurg are full members of the [[Tau Empire]], or allies, or mercenaries, but they are involved heavily in trading and economic relations with the [[Tau]].{{Fn|1}} They are said to be a race principally consisting of miners and traders.{{Fn|5}}
The Demiurg appear to have no homeworld, or at least have abandoned it in favour of spacecraft.{{Cite This}} They are known to avoid [[Imperial]] space unless invited in, making them a very uncommon sight{{Fn|1}}, and are described as defensively-hostile and non-militaristic{{Fn|2}}, though the number of sightings in the [[Ultima Segmentum]] has increased over recent centuries.{{Fn|1}}
Aside from the development of ionic weapons, the Demiurg appear to remodel a lot of their weaponry from technology already developed for use in resource gathering and manufacturing. Two examples of this on board their spacecraft are the Cutting Beam, which appears to have been adapted from high powered lasers used to mine asteroids, and automated mining machines, which, once reconfigured, are launched as attack craft against enemy ships.{{Fn|1}}
Demiurg operated a number of automated mining machines that harvest rare and precious metals. These operated on shunt networks across regions of space that consist of unmanned electromagnetic conveyer stations that propel resource-rich asteroids that are sent from prospecting fields to xeno client homeworlds. Such a process takes hundreds of years but by the time the asteroid reaches in-system the automated mining machines excavate as well as process the arranged shipment.{{Fn|5}}
==Notable Battles==
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition)]], pg. 26
*{{Endn|4}}: [[White Dwarf 286 (UK)]], pg.29
*{{Endn|5}}: [[The Primarchs]] ''The Serpent Beneath'' by [[Rob Sanders]], pg. 377
===Uncited===
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*''New Threat Alert'', by [[Andy Chambers]], from ''Battlefleet Gothic Magazine''. [http://web.archive.org/web/20040728035226/http://us.games-workshop.com/games/bfg/downloads/assets/Demiurg.pdf] (accessed 15 Mar 2013)
*Post on ''Specialist Games'' Epic forum, by [[Jervis Johnson]] (6th post down). [http://web.archive.org/web/20070221095649/http://forums.specialist-games.com/epic/forum_b/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=2532&whichpage=3]. (accessed 15 Mar 2013)
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